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• It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
• Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
• I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
• I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class…
• Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
• Art is the triumph over chaos.
• If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,…
• Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant…

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